Category Archives: Visual Studio

There are times as a developer you will need to run applications such as Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio as Administrator or as a Windows user under another domain account that your machine isn’t joined to. For example using runas while connected to a VPN. One of the issues you may run into is the mapped drives you’ve set are no longer visible to the application because they are mapped to the user you’re logged into the machine as rather than the user you’re running the application as.